Mrs. Pocket And Her Family by Harry Furniss. 1910. 4.8 x 7.5 inches. Dickens's Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Library Edition. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]

There we stood, well squared up before the fire, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us. My breakfast was put on [the] table, Drummle's was cleared away, the waiter invited me to begin, I nodded, we both stood our ground. [A slightly condensed form of the text in Chapter 43. 6* -- the quotation ends well into the shadow of the spine, so one cannot read the number of the page to which Furniss refers.]